Farmers in Gadag district who succeeded in making the government revisit its decision to acquire land for housing South Korea’s Posco Steel Company, are now facing the prospect of their land being acquired for setting up agro-based industries. The government has decided to keep land ready in view of the Global Agri-Business Investment and Food Processing Meet 2011. This time, instead of Halligudi, over 3,800 acres in Petalur, Jantli-Shirur and Mevundi...

The UP government has deepened the ongoing controversy over Land Acquisition in the state by bringing the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development (amendment) Bill 2011 which was passed by the Assembly on Thursday. The bill seeks to remove a provision that gave landowners the right to ask for restoration of their acquired land if it was unused for five years. Section 17 of the UP Urban Planning and Development Act 1973...

-The Indian Express   The UP government has deepened the ongoing controversy over Land Acquisition in the state by bringing the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development (amendment) Bill 2011 which was passed by the Assembly on Thursday. The bill seeks to remove a provision that gave landowners the right to ask for restoration of their acquired land if it was unused for five years. Section 17 of the UP Urban Planning and Development...

-PTI   Stepping up pressure on the Uttar Pradesh government for better compensation, more farmers in NOIDA Friday decided to move court seeking to quash acquisition of their land. At a panchayat meeting in Sadullapur, farmers decided to file petitions to quash acquisition of their acquired properties. "Without court case, authorities do not agree for negotiations," farmer leader Surinder Bhatti said. At other panchayat meetings in Amnabad, Jewar and Dankore areas, farmers were of...

-Orissa Diary   The Odisha High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on a petition seeking quashing of the Land Acquisition proceedings undertaken for the Posco steel plant proposed to be set up at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. The two-judge bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice B N Mohapatra reserved judgment after hearing arguments from all sides on the Land Acquisition proceedings. The two-judge bench had reserved judgment on it on July...